Watercolor shading techniques

​Practice makes perfect… Right ? I find that it’s just as true with watercolor painting as it is with anything else. I get a lot of pleasure painting even simple patterns with watercolors. Each time I pick up a brush and start painting I feel like I’m getting to know my paints a little bit

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I love painting shaded spheres of color! Often, when I'm tired in the evening but still want to do a little something in the studio, ...

Welcome to my comprehensive guide to help you understand and master watercolor techniques. To be honest, when I read what other websites are writing about this topic, half of them don't seem to understand what they're talking about! I don't mean to be fussy or seem arrogant, but some of them are incomplete. Others get

Does your colour pencil artwork look flat? Make your artwork pop! Master the basic shading techniques in art that can be created with pencils, colour pencils and pens.

​Have you ever tried to paint shadows in watercolor and been disappointed with the result? I remember when I started painting I had problems with shadows. Sometimes the color was totally wrong, the results looked muddy, or they just didn’t look convincing. So how should you paint shade and shadows in watercolors? Painting lifelike and

I know what you’re thinking. Just another watercolor pear painting… Right ? Overused and not very original ! But pears, like many other fruit and vegetables, are really useful forms for studying some of the fundamentals of watercolor painting. They generally have a very simple shape, so even if your outline sketch isn’t accurate you’ll